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Woke up to a beautiful sunny (but still pretty windy) day! So apparently not everyone slept well in that rustling wind, poor Debbie hardly slept at all. Slow start to the day, trying to dry everything out, which doesn't take long in this wind :) Today we are going to hike the infamous Skerwink Trail in East Trinity Bay. This trail was recommended to us by our good friends and neighbours, the Reid's. Breakfast eaten, picnic lunch prepared, hatches battened down and we're on the road by ...

Our neighbours insisted that we have a traditional newfie breakfast (potatoes cod and hard bread) of course there was no way I was having any but Greg dove in and thoroughly enjoyed it. We then had Toutons with partridge berry syrup that was sooooooo delicious. After some more great talks we had to hit the trail.

We headed off to Twillingate stopped into Grand Falls- Windsor filled up with ...

... folk music (The Split Peas being the highlight) and a dinner theater, were invited to the home of a local couple for a cod dinner (cod filet, cod tongue and cod breeches...the ovaries), stayed at a comfortable bed and breakfast where the hosts were most congenial, saw an iceberg and a muscle farm up close thanks to a friendly fisherman named Carl who offered ...

We still had a couple of days to kill before Monica was due back at work and so decided to visit Twilllingate. This is a cluster of islands located on the north coast in the centre of Newfoundland. We once overheard a traveler refer to this area as 'God's country'.

To get there though, we had to drive all the back from St. Anthony to Deer Lake and then turn east. It was a full day's drive. Part of the draw of Twillingate is that this ...

... a cross between a husky and a labrador! I can see where he gets the name Bear from! We eventually met him and he was very friendly, although a little cautious to begin with and a little unsure why we were in HIS garden! Haha.

After a day on the road we were keen for dinner so popped out to a local diner. The food was good and it was only a five minute drive from our B&B. The other positive thing about our B&B was our fellow guests. ...